Freedom From The Fear Of Death

Are you afraid of death?  Do you think you’d live so much more courageously and fully if you could be free from the fear of death?  Even if you are afraid of even talking about death, please stay around.  I can show you why you don’t need to be that scared.

My first memory from age 15 months about death

My very first memory is from a day when I was 15 months old. For a long time, I thought this happened much later in my life, but my mother confirmed the date because that morning, she took me to the periodic checkup and she remembered the event in the afternoon, too.

(I guess we discredit the babies’ ability a lot. Just because they can’t explain things in words doesn’t mean they don’t understand nor remember. I’m not surprised if someone remembers the day he or she was born or even earlier.)

I remember I was wearing a dress. My mother was one of those old-fashioned people who would dress up even the small kids when she was to go “out” — meaning going outside of the everyday range of our lives. So, even though I usually wore comfortable cotton pants and shirts, that day I was wearing a dress. I hated it. Even worse than the dress were what I was forced to wear on my little feet. I had patent leather shoes and white socks with nylon lace around the ankle. The lace irritated my skin.

My mother and I were somewhere very crowded. There were huge vehicles, much bigger than the cars I was used to see around my place. They roared and shook the ground, and I was scared. (My mother later told me we went to the train station. Those were buses and industrial trucks.) Many many people moving around.

Death as separation

I didn’t quite understand what was going on. What I knew was that I didn’t want to cross the road. I squatted on the sidewalk. (This is why I remember my socks so well.) Now here is the weird part. It wasn’t like my mother was trying to kill both of us (she wanted to visit her mother, who lived in another city), but somehow I though of death while watching those traffic and sitting on the sidewalk.

I knew, right then, death was about separation. “Once we cross over to the other side, there is no coming back.” I thought, and the very sense of distance and the un-reversible nature of the change dazzled me. For a one-year-old, that was a pretty good understanding of death, I think. (This may be my first channeling experience.  That is, the understanding came from the spiritual plane.)

The physical changes such as not breathing or the heart not beating are superficial signs of death. Death is about moving on to another side of existence.

Double standard of death in organized religions

Much later in my life, I had this dream about death that had the joyous sense of going home. In that dream, death was a completion of this lifetime that could be accepted with peace. Death of a loved one is sad because it is about separation. We lose them – as they were in the physical form. Very sad and we do ourselves service by spending time in mourning.

However, it is important to note that death is not a punishment. Gosh, if death was a punishment, the whole life is condemned. It’s like running into a 100% certain catastrophe! And some religions teach you can buy salvation from this catastrophe? OMG. While I respect everyone’s faith, I must say some organized religions manipulate their congregations with fear tactics, by setting up double standard about death.

One of their teaching is that death is bad and people who die young did something wrong. (Or died for everyone else’s sins. . .) So their congregations run around fearing death, the image of death tainted with guilt and shame. On the other hand, they say heaven is our home and the dead is happy there.

Death as transformation process and life after death

Everything in this physical world is designed to end. That is how things get renewed here. But we are not just our bodies. Our soul, the energy within us, moves on after it leaves its host body. So death is a transformation process. There are many past life regression therapists beside Dr. Weiss now. It’s great we are finally liberating ourselves from the myth of death.

I’m happy I help people see through their many lifetimes in my Akashic Record Reading service. In fact, I recently got acquainted with a past life therapist and we are exchanging services to see if there are synergetic possibilities. Akashic Record Reading and clearing comboed with mid-life memory . . . that will be interesting! Are you afraid of death? Are there any aspects of death that you are confused about? Let me know by writing it in the comment (photo by sirwiseowl)

Review: Many Lives, Many Masters

Through a few synchronicities, I found myself picking up a copy of Dr. Brian Weiss’ classic Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives. In fact, mine is a Japanese translation – it is worldwide famous classic.

Scientist meets reincarnation

Dr. Brian Weiss was the head of the psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach when, in 1980, he met a patient who would change his life. He is also the graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School. Because of his background, he was only interested in things that can be proven scientifically. Not the type who would subscribe to New Age stuffs, you know.

He used conventional psychiatric therapy on this patient for 18 months and saw no real progress. Then he tried hypnotherapy.

What happened was something he found hard to accept as a doctor and scientist: His patient started recalling her past lives during the hypnotherapy. She also pointed out critical facts about his personal life that she had no way to know. Further, she channeled messages from the “masters” that she could connect in the time between physical incarnations.

I am emphasizing his educational and professional background because I know so many people are skeptical about New Age stuff like reincarnation, thinking it is not scientific. While it is not scientifically proven yet, it has been observed by many sane and well-educated scientists like Dr. Weiss.

Why the New Age is not a New Age at all

Dr. Weiss also addresses the issues many people with Christian or Jewish faith have about reincarnation. He explains the historical manipulation to the Bible by Roman Emperor Constantine. According to him, there were descriptions in the Bible until then that support the idea of reincarnation.

I’m glad I read this part because I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who told me that, as a Catholic, she was taught not to believe in reincarnation. Just like churches use to teach not to believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. (What, they still do?) Until then, I thought many people are skeptical about reincarnation because it is not proven in modern science – I didn’t know there was religious restrictions.

The so-called New Age is not new at all. It is millennium old. It just has been covered up by certain authorities for a long time. We are now rediscovering what our wise ancestors knew both in the eastern and western worlds. (Reincarnation is a basic idea in Buddhism.)

Masters, angels, spirit guides

This book is not only great introduction to past life regression therapy and the idea of reincarnation, but also contains fascinating messages from the “Masters”. Some people may call them angels or spirit guides. These are truly wise messages for life.

Guided by these Masters, Dr. Weiss comes to the realization that each soul chooses the birth setting (time, place, the parents) and the life lessons for the upcoming lifetime. When it completes the lessons, it can leave. Souls need to incarnate as physical beings because there are certain lessons that can only be learned as physical beings.

The meaning of life from the soul’s perspective

This is deep. We usually think of life from the live already-born person’s perspective. Few of us stop and think why we came to be born. We are born already, and before we notice, we are caught up with what’s called life. Most of the time, we are buried in the superficial aspects of life – what to wear to work today, what’s for dinner, what to do this weekend, whether we have enough money, etc. etc.

Even when we have enough resources to realize the importance of setting goals and improving our life and ourselves, we think from the same current perspective – for example, I want to grow my business to certain level so that I can enjoy some material wealth, I want to travel more to see the world firsthand, I want to enrich my social life more, I want to eat healthy and stay fit, etc. etc.

But have we thought about the deeper meaning of life from the soul’s perspective? Why did your soul choose to incarnate this time? What lessons did your soul want to learn in this lifetime? Why did you choose your specific birth setting? How did your birth setting help you learn the lessons you intended to learn? How are you progressing in your lessons? What lessons are left to be learned in this lifetime?

The issue of life and death

Dr. Weiss says the biggest fear of humans is the fear of death, and this understanding – that souls incarnate many times – can alleviate this fear. Maybe. To me, however, I’m more afraid of failing to learn the lessons I have placed on myself before birth. Does that mean I have to live on and on or come back to go through the lessons again in my next lifetime? Like a failed student? (No way!)

I’m seriously reviewing my life progress from the soul’s perspective. This book was like a wakeup call for me. It’s not like I’ve been living lazily without goals – I consider myself to be conscious and awake. But still I feel the need to review the goals themselves from the soul’s perspective.

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